January/February 1998

Photographs by Stephen Green, Interviews by Mindy GilesReally the Blues

The startling photographs featured here are by Stephen Green, whose fine Going to Chicago, (in the same large format), was a big success in 1990 and is still available from Woodford Press. Interviews by Mindy Giles are with bluesmen located in the Delta, the Southwest and the West. Their names are mostly unknown. They liken blues to the Bible and offer, as the following excerpts reveal, pertinent notes on inspiration that apply equally well to jazz.